Comments on: Yahoo Answers Add Simple Social Networking Feature

By: How Social is Amazon? - Bokardo

How Social is Amazon? - Bokardo — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:14:18 +0000

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By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:35:14 +0000

I do not even know where to begin on this one. Yahoo Answers is one of the worst conceived ideas to hit the internet in years. If they really want to improve this, they need to remove the ridiculous thumbs don and up feature, the “top contributor feature” and some sort of forum where the anecdotal, often un scientific, sometimes harmful advice can be challenged. I can say in all modesty I am an authority in my field (Aquarium keeping), however the answers that get picked as best and the top contributor in this area is nothing more than a poser.
This new feature may help a little, but doubt much as Yahoo rewards people here who have hours a day to bang away on their keyboards pretending to know what they are talking about.

By: bellezza

bellezza — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:13:22 +0000

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sudoku — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:05:01 +0000

9 su 10! Ottenerlo! Siete buoni!

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By: Lyle Moomaw

Lyle Moomaw — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:31:00 +0000

Regrettably, Y!A was, and is, unable to prevent the elimination of intelligent, well conceived, and clearly written content if it is the least bit controversial. By failing to provide an even minimally effective review process for flagged questions and answers (Is there even an actual person who does this? Even one ? ) by default the site ultimately only appeals to the lowest common denominator. A way to track individuals? Kudos. I’m sure it’s a programming tweak to be proud of. But Y!A has much more important issues to address before it rises above the level of being just a toy, albit one with attractive packaging.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:21:09 +0000

We realized a while ago (about a year and a half ago, actually, around the time Yahoo Answers was launching) that you need some social elements alongside an “answers” model to make it really stick with people.

While our site, http://www.funadvice.com/ isn’t nearly as big as Yahoo Answers, Yedda, or Answerbag, our social networking features are the most evolved of all the “answers” sites. From looking at Quantcast & compete, it’s also clear that users have been liking the new feature set. This month, we’re on track to generate about a quarter million unique visitors, with more than 600,000 pageviews.

By: Chicago Web Designer

Chicago Web Designer — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:21:11 +0000

This is a great feature, as I know there are a number of guerilla marketing companies out there that are using Yahoo Answers to drive traffic to their website, but sitting on certain RSS feeds (which Yahoo Answers provides for free) and when a question comes up with the terms they want, they rush to answer it. Once they answer it, and go over a Level 2, they can then vote for best answer and promote their own answers, or create a mob scenario using multiple accounts to vote their answer to the top and vote others down. Well done Yahoo.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:05:49 +0000

We are using the same ‘contact/fans’ social feature at our site. It was a great boost is terms of user interaction, so I would guess the same thing could happen at yahoo answers. I say yahoo made the right move with this.

By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:41:28 +0000

Good to know that Yahoo Answers is listening to its users and coming up with features that made sense intuitively in the first place. Since our pilot (http://answeru.com) on Jan 15th in about 10 US campuses, we have had these very features on AnswerU.com.

The whole idea is to reveal who the top “authorities” are on various categories and sub-categories, subscribe to their content and connect with them. Again, its more interesting when you are at a specific location (US campus in our case) where there is a real possibility to connect and hangout with these “experts” offline.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:31:40 +0000

This feature CAN help to reduce the amount of spam. What Yahoo! need is to track down individuals who tend to spam or intentionally provide faulty answer.

By: ...some Drifter

...some Drifter — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:08:32 +0000

i like the concept of this “referral integrity”

but i’m not sure it’ll work, at least in this scenario

people want answers, they learn it – and leave.
simple, make it work – and keep it simple.

i don’t see why they’d want to still ‘hangout’ there with those social features after they have gotten what they want already